Screenshots taken with Konami’s Diorama Studio software. This one features Siren Eukrante in the space station diorama background.

A digital diorama done with Konami’s fantastic Diorama Studio software. Starring WaffeBunny and Xiphos in the Ghost Town diorama background.

Previously, I showed you how to display Japanese text correctly in Diorama Studio and the ShinkiNET Launcher. I’m now going to provide some recommendations for optimising things.

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In a previous guide, I showed you how to display Japanese text correctly in Konami’s Diorama Studio program. As mentioned previously, you cannot launch the Diorama Studio executable directly. You will have to launch Diorama Studio through the ShinkiNET Launcher.

Mysteriously, even after configuring Windows XP to display Japanese text correctly in Diorama Studio, the ShinkiNET Launcher will still display gibberish like this:

Now you don’t actually have to display the Japanese text correctly in the ShinkiNET Launcher. There are only seven options in the ShinkiNET Launcher and Diorama Studio is the first. So, there’s no great need for you to change your Windows XP language settings. On top of that, some non-Japanese programs might lose some functionality or behave oddly when the Windows XP language settings are changed so I would actually recommend not doing this.

However, if you would like to see the Japanese text display correctly in the ShinkiNET Launcher as well, here’s how you go about it.

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